We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.